ICYMI for Tuesday 21st February 2017

Monahan and crew unveiled the lineup for Ottawa’s premiere summer music bash Tuesday, and it’s clear they spared no expense in curating arguably the fest’s biggest, most ambitious bill in its 23-year history. Country music star Toby Keith opens up the festival July 6 before a cavalcade of international talent fills out the nearly two-week sonic window.

Nickelback just can’t catch a break. Last December, a police department in Kensington, PEI, threatened to force offenders to listen to Canada’s own Nickelback if they got picked up for drinking and driving.

By any measure, $100M is an astonishing amount of money. That is the total Bell Media’s MuchFACT (formerly VideoFACT) has contributed to the Canadian music community through funding and promotion of music videos and related music content for all media platforms.

And Finally

As Canada celebrates its 150th birthday a Sackville, N.B. singer and songwriter, by the name of R.A. Launtenschlager, has penned a new song to help commemorate the special occasion.

45 Comments

Darbar, when you come on, re yesterday’s exchange on “Family Day” (or…), you summarised things perfectly (and it was the talk back before it was established): “So basically a we need a holiday in February Day”

I agree! The calendar is a great resource, and also makes me wish I could attend all of them!

GarfieldUK
February 21, 2017 at 09:44

I would love it if each event created their own calendar that people could subscribe to so that their schedule would auto update. Early on it could just block out the dates but as the event got closer the could put in the full schedule.